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Old Nov 3, 2018 | 10:04 am
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Originally Posted by squawk
Originally Posted by nwoody2001
LBA-LHR-JFK on the above dates looking to be 110,000 Avios + £660.19 - However, there are only 2 options available with one being an 8 hour stop-over at LHR or the later being 1.25 hour stop-over.. neither ideal

MAN-LHR-JFK on the above dates looking to be 110,000 Avios + £835.46 - Times are much more varied and better but why the hell is it £175.27 more expensive to fly from MAN than LBA
I have no specific insight into your particular issue here, but I recall that sometimes BA IT is a little flaky, and that the actual cost isn’t properly calculated on the first page when redeeming - you have to click through to the next page and then it works itself out. Is it possible that this is what’s happening here?
Having had a moment to check this, it turns out that squawk is absolutely correct here.

The bottom of the first page, on which you select your flights, gives the figures mentioned by nwoody2001. These are incorrect.

In each case, if you click through to the next page, you will get a firm price quote. For both MAN-LHR-JFK-LHR-MAN and LBA-LHR-JFK-LHR-LBA, the second page gives the correct TFC figures - namely the figures in my immediately preceding post. (The MAN figure if there is a standard connection in both directions is £633.93, to be clear.)
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